Here’s a selection of blooms from earlier this season of the ever beautiful S. rosea. Depending who’s naming convention you’d like to roll with, you may know it as S. purpurea ssp. venosa var. burkii. I just like to type S. rosea because typing that other thing out is bound to give me carpal tunnel… yeah.
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S. rosea “Big Mama”
S. rosea f. luteola – an anthocyanin free mutant
S. rosea – veinless form – Bay Co. FL
Posted in Anthocyanin Free, Blog
Tagged Big Mama, luteola, rosea, Sarracenia, veinless
Here are some examples of AF (Anthocyanin Free, or all green) Sarracenia flava. Now, these are not to be confused with S. flava var. maxima, which still contains anthocyanin, and therefore S. flava var. maxima is not an AF plant. The red pigment in S. flava var. maxima can be visible in the grow points of the new pitchers that are forming, as well as on damaged portions of the plant (such as pitchers, phyllodia, and/or flower stalk.) The plants below are still young and unfortunately have not bloomed for me yet. Maybe next year? I have hopes to use them in future breeding projects and create new lines of AF flava. Fingers crossed!
Sarracenia flava AF – Telogia, Liberty Co. FL
Sarracenia flava AF – Telogia, Liberty Co. FL
Sarracenia flava AF – Colquitt Co. GA
Sarracenia flava AF – Colquitt Co. GA
Sarracenia flava – Shallotte – Brunswick Co., NC
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Tagged all green, anthocyanin free, Brunswick, Colquitt, County, flava, Florida, Georgia, Liberty, Liberty County, Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia, Shallotte, Telogia
Recently my family and I visited the SF Conservatory of Flowers and got a chance to see the Chomp! exhibit. If you ever find yourself in the area, I highly recommend stopping by and immersing yourself in the beauty that is the SF Conservatory of Flowers. Below is a slide show featuring a few shots from around the conservatory, as well as a few highlight shots from the exhibit. Chomp! runs from 11 Apr 2014 – 19 Oct 2014 so be sure and visit soon! (And in case you didn’t already know – plants in the exhibit are from none other than California Carnivores… sweet!)
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Posted in Blog, Out and About
Tagged California Carnivores, Cephalotus, Chomp!, Conservatory Of Flowers, darlingtonia, Dionaea, drosera, Golden Gate Park, Heliamphora, nepenthes, Pinguicula, San Francisco, Sarracenia, SF, Sundew, Venus Fly Trap
Sarracenia pitchers come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and put on a display of all sorts of markings. As I’m sure you’ve seen, the markings can range from delicate and subtle to extremely bold and complex with the veins, splotches, and windows going off all over the place. As I was doing some work in the greenhouse the other day, the markings of S. “Tina” caught my eye; that thing could double as a botanical Rorschach test. You know, those are the ink blot tests that are used for psychological analysis. Yeah. For some reason, with S. “Tina” this is what comes to mind when I see those markings. Does that make me somewhat unbalanced? Heh heh… 🙂
What do you see?
Sarracenia “Tina”
(The parentage is uncertain, although many speculate it to be the same as S. ‘Sorrow’)
A Sarracenia ‘Black Widow’ pitcher coloring up quite nicely. As the season moves on, the plant will get even darker. Cross by Phil Faulisi. More information on this fantastic plant can be found on the ICPS website.
Sarracenia ‘Black Widow’
Sarracenia “Reptilian Rose” x leucophylla “Purple Lips” – Clone 1
Cross by Dr. Travis H. Wyman
Sarracenia “Reptilian Rose” x leucophylla “Purple Lips” – Clone 1
Cross by Dr. Travis H. Wyman
